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So Did the Hordes Really Skip out for Episode 2?
gabec asks: "A few days ago Slashdot reported that thousands of people were going to call in sick so they could go check out the new Star Wars movie. Virtually the entirety of the computer services department at my university is taking the day off in unison to go see the show. I expect the whole school to implode that day. So my question is, how many Slashdot readers really did skip out of work for Star Wars Episode 2?" Those wacky geeks over at General Protection Fault probably said it the best. I think a high truancy rate was only to be expected. Funny thing to note: timothy and I went to see Spider-Man, yesterday and we were the only two people in that theatre. Three guesses where everyone else went, and the first two don't count.
I booked two days holiday so I could see the midnight showing at Leicester Square, London.
Steve.
timothy and I went to see Spider-Man, yesterday and we were the only two people in that theatre
Nice yo! Last time that happened to me and my girlfriend we had sex for the entire movie, and didn't even watch one bit of it.
and you and timothy do anything... oh wait a minute, nevermind.
Wouldn't this be better as a poll?
Did you miss work to see starwars
O Yes.
O No.
O Cowboy Neal went and told me what happened when he got back.
My vote is "No"
We did the midnight showing and I got home about 4am. We just all showed up at work late, but still made it in. Barely.
I would have skipped out of work to go see Episode II, but I had an important companywide meeting that I had to be at.
Of course, the companywide meeting just happened to located in the theater that was showing AotC, and lasted exactly the length of the movie.
"If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for everyone else."
Okay not really, but most of the people that work for me that did go were real nice and asked for a day off or even a half day a few weeks back. I supposed that they'd be in the majority though.
I really hate Dan Patrick.
We can always watch this movie at night. There are lots of movie theatres featuring it here. Is there any reason why americans should watch it at day?
How can this hurt the economy? The largest pool of unemployed labor is out spending money!
Yes, I am a CS guy. Yes, I am unemployed. Yes, I spent $8.50 to see AOTC. Yes, I payed to much for refreshments.
Yeah I skipped a class at school and a few hours of work to go see Episode II. It was well worth it.
:)
Of course my company continued to operate without me being there. Even if we lost 2 or three of our main servers while I as at the movie, the company would continue to operate and the remaining servers would pickup the load.
Good admins always have automated backup systems that kick in when a failure happens. Having the entire tech industry take a day off wouldn't ruin the world as predicted
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Many people I know went on Wednesday night, and then called in sick the next day in order to catch up on their sleep. Slightly less than half of the people I personally spoke to had been honest with their bosses, saying things like: "Face it -- it's Star Wars day. It is my desssssstiny to miss work."
I work freelance, so I was able to go both on Wednesday night and then wake up Thursday afternoon and go again. Both theatres were about 80-95% full, but not sold out.
A few friends who made sure to be there on Day One for TPM told me they would be waiting a few weeks to see AotC, partly to avoid the crowds but mostly because they feared that the movie would violently suck.
Judging from the very vocal audiences I was a part of, it looks like AotC has made a pretty favourable impression, and seems to suck very little. Canadian audiences are often reluctant to make noise during movies, but the final climatic light-sabre battle in the movie drew many involuntary gasps and cheers from even the most stoic viewers.
"Die, Jedi dogs!" -C3P0
I am from a small, grease-loving country in the north called Ca-na-da.
My manager (a genuine SW fan) organized a trip to the theater to see SW:AotC on opening day. The company didn't pay for the tickets, but everyone was excited to:
a) see Star Wars before everyone else did (including their kids)
b) spend some time together where there was no pressure to perform
As an employee of a company that has seen 4-5 layoffs over the past year and a half, and a member of a group that recently completed a very stressful project, I can say this trip was the best thing anyone has done for my group's morale and general stress level in at least six months (and it didn't really cost the company anything). Of course, that probably means we should have been doing stuff like this all along.
Stephen
P.S. For those about to say that it cost the company 20 man hours for my group to go see this movie, just take it out of my 'overtime account'. There's about 500 unpaid hours in there already for this year.
Well, I tried...
:)
- called the boss saying I had to go to the doc
- got the Jedi outfit
- went to the movies looking like a retard
- tickets sold-out five guys in front of me in line.
- went back home and contenplated suicide
- girlfriend came over and felt kinda hot for the jedi outfit
happy happy end
I planned my vacation in advance. :)
I just bought a ticket on-line for the 7:45pm showing in Redwood City, got there an hour early to wait in line to get in, found a nice aisle seat when I did and saw a kickass film.
Which it really is. All this complaining about the wooden acting and cheesy dialogue...has anybody ever considered that maybe Lucas is writing the dialogue intentionally to keep the series feeling like the old-time Saturday Morning serials, complete with shiny spaceships, red planets, ripped tops and, yes, oftimes grandiose and stuffy dialogue. And Ebert can stuff it. He gave TPM *three* stars and this one *two* stars. If he honestly thinks AotC is a full star worse than TPM he's completely out of his mind. Go see it. Go see it again. Oh and the guy who ruined parts of it for me with your fuckin' sig, I got people looking for you. )
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I can't speak for others, but here at Yahoo!'s user experience group we all went en-masse. They paid for our tickets, (waiting in line *for us* two weeks ago) and we all took three hours out to catch it.
Nothing like a little off-site to keep morale high!
Kevin Fox
Our CEO took the whole company in the middle of the afternoon. Otherwise, well - I'm sure some of us would have been missing.
\Drew National Data Director, John Edwards for President
But yes, I did go see SWEP2: AotC yesterday afternoon. Since I'm a consultant, I didn't have to "skip work" or call in sick to see the movie.
(My timing was off on Thursday -- the early-afternoon shows were sold out -- so I bought an advance ticket for 2:10pm Friday. The theater was only about 10% full.
My goal was to see the movie before school got out because the teens are often rude and obnoxious. As it turned out, there was a rude and obnoxious guy in the row behind me anyway (sitting by himself), making loud annoying comments. To his credit, he mostly made the rude comments during the incredibly-lame romantic-dialogue segments, but it was so annoying that about a third of the way through the movie, I got up and moved several rows away.
After seeing the movie, I am somewhat more inclined to agree with "The Case for the Empire."
-- http://www.MarkWelch.com/ Pleasanton California
The HR person later asked why I was taking the day off, and I declined to tell her (citing "personal reasons").
(The kicker is, I saw said HR person in the theater. I think *she* actually "called in". Oh, sweet irony.)
At least once a month, I get an ADAD call, always in violation of California or federal law, but the calls are always Caller-ID blocked and don't identify the caller, so I haven't been able to do anything about them.
If you're really into doing something about this, you could contact your phone company. Aren't they legally obliged to keep records of any call passing their network? While the law and their policy probably prevents them from giving you the number, they should be in the position to report it to the proper authorities.
Whether that helps, I don't know, but here in The Netherlands that would probably help. There are plenty of consumer protection organisations to deal with this crap. One of them even has a popular TV show running for over a decade addressing these issues and other less than friendly stories about companies and government instituations people deal with.
While it is done with a humerous approach (making the bad guys look really stupid and dislikable), they usually manage to resolve stuff and always tell the viewer who to contact if they end up in crap.
It could be your boss's attempt at a warped punishment for you.
I hate taking dates to movies and they keep asking, "What's that?" Or "Who's that again?" Or worse yet, "Why is so and so doing this and that?"
:)
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Now we know why so many companies go out of business.
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You know, there's a happy medium somewhere. Just because some people are Star Wars nuts (and I mean that in the crazed maniac sense), doesn't mean that the complete opposite is good. Sure, you may not like fantasy, but fantasy movies can be a good thing. [i]Lord Of The Rings[/i] comes to mind, specifically because you can read the books, and then go "experience" the books via the movies.
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I actually haven't seen Star Wars yet (I was busy getting a sun burn at the Giants game -- my boss told me to go). I'll probably see it eventually, but I think I'm going to wait until after the first two weeks...
Whats even funnier is that the projector operator was getting paid to watch you and your girlfriend have sex from his own private skybox.
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... but then again, most worked that evening until 9pm when we normally leave at about 5:30. "Skipping work" doesn't have to mean screwing your company. (Although, the sales people know you are there until 9.... they think you just ditched.)
Several months ago I told my boss I was going to be out of the office on May 16. I told him it was because I was going to see Star Wars. I have vacation days and I can use them for any reason I want.
By the way, skipping school does harm someone... yourself.
So there is no way that the call data can be extracted other than through a private civil suit. I'd spend thousands of dollars, with nearly zero chance of recovering a penny.
The consumer shows on TV never do much to investigate -- if more than a phone call to a known merchant is required, they don't pursue the matter. For the "complex" stories you see, they are almost always just recycling other people's efforts (private lawsuits or law enforcement).
-- http://www.MarkWelch.com/ Pleasanton California
Off-topic: I heard that AMC Empire 25 in NYC's Times Square has a digital projector. Anyone know if it's running Episode II in digital?
/. thread a few weeks ago was just plain wrong in many ways, so use this link instead.
This page at starwars.com lists the theaters that are playing it in digital. The Wired article mentioned in the
Be warned, many theaters that are listed only have one digital theater but are playing AOTC on several screens, so you need to find out which times are for the digital screen.
Lastly, as you might expect, the digital ones sell out quickly. I went Friday for a noon matinee an hour and a half early only to find out all digital shows were sold out for 2 days! Bottom line you need to plan ahead or wait for the rush to subside.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon - Douglas William Jerrold
Incidentally, did anyone else notice that in Spider-Man, when he's swinging down Silicon Alley, there's a banner for "Webstrands Platform"?
Just a movie? How do you know?
;)
Have YOU ever been to a galaxy far far away? Were you there a long time ago? And if so, could you please pass on the secrets on intergalactic space travel? And possibly plans to your time machine? Alternatively, if you have no time machine, could you tell us your secret to living a long time? Maybe you could sell these secrets.. Maybe we could be partners. If so, do you think I could get 10% of the profits?
What the hell am I talking about? Obviously I've gone crazy from watching AotC too many times.. I deserve way more than 10%
I am BelDion's
Mainly because it has only TV and not real movie qualities. So why offer a joyful day at work for a low quality flick? OK, it has nice pictures but the story sucks donkey balls.
Um, think about it: a movie with a great plot but sucky visuals would transfer well to TV, but a movie with great visuals and a sucky plot (as you say of SW) is exactly the sort you want to catch while it's still at the theatre.
[and anyway, SW is a `crowd movie' -- seeing it in a packed theatre definitely enhances the experience.]
We live, as we dream -- alone....
The employment firm that came up with those statistics had that exact same announcement when EP1 came out. Slashdot also covered it then too.
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(Although, the sales people DON'T know you are there until 9.... they think you just ditched.)
Yeah, put a *don't* in there and that makes some sense.
I informed my boss that I would be coming in four hours later that day... Luckily I'm only working part time, so I could fill in for those four hours the next day. :^)
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I just couldn't justify getting off work to see it, but I did have my tickets for yesterday (Friday night) secured online a week in advance, and very glad I did. Although the AMC where we saw it was not digital-equipped, the picture looked clear and fine, so I'm not sure what purists and Roger Ebert complained about. I'm still definitely planning to see it in our digital-equipped Showcase theater later, but I'm not expecting to notice that much of a difference. I think film projection can present this film perfectly in a nice theater with a well-tuned bright projector.
The good news for me is that I was really afraid I would hate it. Like most, I was disappointed by EP1, and heard that although this one was better, it wasn't much so. I would have to respectfully disagree with those opinions. This movie blows EP1 away, and although I have to see it again before figuring out where it stands in the rankings of the whole series, I'm definitely seeing it again. I'm pretty sure that having Jar-Jar on the screen for probably less than a minute total was significantly better than a movie full of Ewoks.
The battle scenes are outstanding, and I have no idea why some people said that only the last half an hour of the movie is "redeeming." I don't want to give anything away, but there are plenty of action scenes throughout the movie, starting out very early. Sure there is dialog and exposition interspersed throughout, but it's all very well done. For those of you who, like me, didn't like EP1 and had reservations about seeing it this weekend, I strongly recommend you check it out. Don't wait for video, or necessarily to see it in digital - it's a beautiful exciting movie that definitely needs to be seen on the big screen. Lucas has redeemed himself a little in my eyes, and I can't wait to see how EP3 will turn out now.
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The Washington Post's Hank Stuever said it well: There's no point telling SW fans to "Get a life."
They have one. This is it.
People are entitled to their interests. You like programming? Fine. I like star trek. My friend likes star wars. The guy next to me in math class likes wrestling. So what?
Karma: T-rexcellent.
* I am unemployed so took the day off from job hunting to see the movie.
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And to all the naysayers out there: waiting in line with fellow SW geeks is almost as fun as sitting in a packed theater with them. My friend won an original 1970s Millenium Falcon toy, with box and instructions included. Sure, opened toys are worth less, but it's a KICKIN' centerpiece. Lightsaber duels happened almost hourly, and we had great fun mocking the people who drove by to mock us. The movie is that much more beautiful when sleep-deprived and living off of Doritos and pizza.
Can you tell me which is more pathetic...a person who can take three days off of their job with no one complaining to wait in line for a movie, or a person who goes out of their way three days in a row to drive by and yell "Homo" at those first people?
Co-founder of GerbilMechs
For the rest of us, it's just a few of hours of work missed. I have a "real job", as do the 14 other employees who went with me to see AotC. Miraculously, the world did not grind to a halt, the company didn't shut its doors for good, and nobody died.
There's more to life than work, even if sometimes it's just a cool movie.
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At work we tried to talk the Boss into making Friday afternoon a team-wide AotC event, but he rambled about "that rubbish" and ranted on and on about how the last good sci-fi movie was 2001: A Space Odyssey.
With the office trip option not going to happen, I got to work early on Friday, finished my projects for the day, skipped lunch, and was out the door by 12:15.
And, if possible, I'll do it again in 2005.
Because I have a contract work so I don't really get paid vacation days/sick days. I would have done it, but since the job market is bad, I decided not to. It is weird that pretty much everyone at my employer, Symantec, was at work. And there are a lot of geeks!
:(.
Now that it is weekend, I have a nasty cold (aching body) and I can't go
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I got home about 4:00 am. I went to work and was there in body, but even less in spirit than normal. What do I count as?
If all you have are silver bullets, everything looks like a werewolf.
"I'm glad you're here to tell us these things!"
-- Han Solo, to C-3PO
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I didnt, i saw the telesync VCD on my computer (With TV-out) many days before.
Ooooh, you are 1337!!! The rest of us saw it in THX sound on a 65 foot-high concave projection screen with zero pixellation. Sucks to be you I guess.
I was driving through my old college stomping grounds of Ann Arbor, MI on Thursday, and decided on a whim to see if there was any chance whatsoever of getting tickets. I doubted that tickets would be available, since Ann Arbor is a geek-heavy town where students can skip class on a whim, let alone for an event as big as Star Wars. Needless to say, I easily got tickets 45 minutes before the 6:00 pm show. I remembered a sold-out theater for the first weekend of the original trilogy re-releases and Phantom, but the opening night showing of Clones was only half-full. Amazing. Apparently, people disliked Ep. 1 more than I anticipated, and decided that the effort to pre-order tickets or stand in line for opening day just wasn't worth it.
--All your stolen base are belong to Rickey Henderson
Those guys driving by and yelling were the cast of American Grafitti.
-- thinkyhead software and media
I took that day off and went to a Doctor's appointment in the morning and then caught the 5:50pm show for only $3.50! Gotta love that "last show before 6pm" discount.
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Look, I have read every CS/math book I could lay my hands on. I have been coding since I was 13, and missed all my highschool home-comings while coding (I didn't miss my prom.) I am also a 3rd year college student, majoring in math.
I have never seen a single star wars movie, never watch an anime, not even a comic book. I hate computer games (specially multi-player games) but I don't mind trying some galaga while I am waiting for my pizza at pizza hut.
You know, if you're not careful you're going to end up dead from a distinct lack of having a life. I too enjoy reading and playing with machines, but there is a time when getting out and doing something with friends (even something passive like watching a movie) is a good thing. There is far more in the world than that which is simply technical and if you fail to experience it when you are young then you will grow up to be a bitter and remorseful old man.
I'll be seeing it tonight with a sizable group of geeks, so I have yet to form an informed opinion of the movie. I'm not expecting much in the way of quality acting from Manequin Skywalker, but if the choice of R.A. Salvatore for the novelization is any indication, the fight scenes will be golden.
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Did you play Dilbert's buzzword bingo?
I've got a bad feeling about this (check)
May the force be with you (check)
really cheesy line delivered by a male trying to get the interest of a female (check)
R2, what do you think you're doing? (check)
the dark side has cast a shroud over everything (stand up and shout BINGO!)
- passion
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
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Damn the Emperor!
Can someone tell me, what do being a geek and being a fantacy freak have in common?
In addition to Star Wars, I love a hundred other movies.
What does loving Star Wars have to do with being a "fantasy freak"?
Get real guys.
Yes guys, get real... by staying inside and coding instead of going out with a girlfriend or even a bunch of your buddies to see Star Wars, ogle Natalie Portman's perky nipples, etc.
Friggin math geek.
"And like that
I was thinking the exact same thing myself.
Really, this guy should memorize StarWars trivia, go to SCA Festivals and various Cons, commit to marathon sessions of playing Video and fantasy role playing games, you know all the stuff we geeks do to get a life.
Uhhm... Wait a minute.
No need to skip work. My company rented out a mid-afternoon showing on opening day for us. As did a number of other companies in the area such as Origin and Dell.
Why skip when work will pay you to watch a movie?
:)
Once more unto the breach dear friends...
Sorry, but I really don't understand this.
By taking time off work to see a film during working time you save how many dollars exactly on the price of the cinema ticket?
And the half day's income you lose is how much exactly?
Round here you'd lose even if you were unemployed, because the car parking charges during the day are so much more than during the evening.
So let me ask this: why are you doing all these things?
Part of the reason why I got as much into math, physics and computers as I did, is because I wanted to live in the Star Wars world, even if I had to build it myself. I want to live in a world with zooming spaceships, robots, faster than light travel/communications, etc. If I can contribute a little bit to building that kind of world, then I'll be happy.
OK, I know, zero out of ten for realism, but hey, life isn't life without dreams. And thinking about function subspaces is more fun when you have Darth Vader's theeme going through your head. (The Beatles are better for Galois groups, strictly IMO.)
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Part of my job is providing social activities to a bunch of science/math high school students.
So I arranged to take a group of them to see Episode 2 and even got to count it as doing part of my job.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
I noticed something funny here in Norway. When Yoda started fighiting, everybody in the theatre started laughing! I laughed too! And when he was finished fighting, he took his stick and started looking old again.
What was lucas thinking of?
My car gets 15 rods to the sows nose, and that's the way I likes it!
It's been a long time.
I didn't have to. The managers in my department took our whole group out to see it Thursday, and paid for the tickets. :)
I guess it's one of those "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" things.
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
If you can't comprehend how the things he is doing might actually be enjoyable, then you really have no claim to any geek/nerdom.
I'm not saying that you did claim that, but you are on Slashdot after all.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
I took the whole day off, but told my boss I was going to play golf (guess what he loves to do!). Started playing golf at 9am, and my buddy and I went to see AotC afterwards. If you're going to waste a vacation/sick day to do something, you might as well make a day out of it. Thursday was the only good day of the week to go play here in Maine, so it all worked out.
We got there just as the movie was starting. The ushers didn't have a flashlight, but I had my Photon red LED flashlight, and caught an aisle seat right away. I'm going to shoot the guy with the bladder condition that sat in the middle of my row. Jerk got up 5 times, which means he also came back 5 times.
The theater was only about half full, and the ticket guy said they had not been very busy all day.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
I went to see AOTC Thursday afternoon. I didn't knock off work for that, I actually had a dental appointment and had the rest of the afternoon off anyway. (The dental appointment caused my headache instead of the half-fuzzy film, but that's beside the point.) I attended the 4PM showing and there were maybe 10, 12 other people in the 40+ seat auditorium - and probably half of those were children under the age of 10. I left around 7:00 and lines for the next showing at 7:15 were still quite thin. That's terrible business for a hyped new movie opening in the middle of the week during college spring break, in a medium sized mall, at the only theater in a town - on an 85-degree day in late May! Just by looking around my community I'm surprised that the movie has done so well.
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Fortunately, our management gives flextime. I attended the first regular showing, which was near lunchtime. Barley worth the matinee cost, due to the dull movie. Teatre not very crowded either.
Last year I represented a guy who sold 0.034 slugs of heroin. He was in a peck of trouble, and got 97 months in prison.
than spend few hours watching a friken fantacy
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That is the whole point of a fantasy is that you have to be in to it.
IOW: it is your infantacy(sic).
(heh, sorry could not resist, but hey....you have the right to post on
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Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
The most realistic one of them all. I must have hit a nerve, seeing the
amount of moderation my post got.
I guess I am not a geek (knowing how good I am in baseball, and the fact that
I am seeing a pretty girl.) but hey, atleast I thought I was one.
> So let me ask this: why are you doing all these things?
I didn't get into mathematics or computing to make my own galaxy, I agree that
being a control freak has something to do it, but the most important reason is
because that is the only thing I can do.
I was a business student, up until recently, and I spent most of my time focusing
on the mathematical aspects of business.
Going to MTH/CS wasn't a conscious choice, it was a gradual drift to my interests, and
a growing pain to satisfy my curosity about life.
I, however, learnt programming for the sole purpose of independence. I have obsecure software
needs, no general package can satisfy. I need lexical analyzers, matrix routines, graphics
manipulation, and interrupt handlers for my IC components.
Learning to program was an effort, solving problems was an inistinct of mine.
Well, I just got home after watching the movie. If I'd had the option I would rather have worked. It sucked.
Jar-Jar Binks must die or I must get a job.
Yeah! Stick it to those darn Canadians! God Bless America! And screw Water! Screw Physics too!
:)
Karma: Chameleon (Mostly affected by the 1980s)
No, I stayed here.
Go ahead. Reboot your computer.
I dare you.
--Blair
Really, this guy should memorize StarWars trivia, go to SCA Festivals and various Cons, commit to marathon sessions of playing Video and fantasy role playing games, you know all the stuff we geeks do to get a life.
Yes, but we do it in a social setting. That can make a huge difference. Still, I'll give you a virtual +1 funny...
I went to a 3pm show so I pratically took the afternoon off, but I also worked extra hours during the week to make up for it. I'd have to agree that skipping work doesn't mean you have to screw your company.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
I'm looking forward to seeing the movie as well, I will see it, but I don't really care if it's this week, next month, or next year. I'll get around to it. It'll be the same movie when it's playing in the discount theater for $2.50.
I'm planning on going to see LotR/FotR tomorrow, for the first time. At the $2.50 theater.
I also irritate my friends by refusing to buy book trilogies until all the books are in print.
Of course, if everyone were like me, the 2nd book would never get printed.
The whole reason that Farenheit is better is because it is designed with the livability of humans in mind. A human can't survive below 0 degrees F for very long, nor over 100 degrees F. I'd rather have a temperature systems designed around my living conditions than the physical state of fucking water.
A person can't survive below 0 degrees C very long either, and that's warmer than 0 degrees F. The only reason Fahrenheit is "better" is because you, personally, are familiar with it, even if you can't spell it, and you refuse to learn anything different (maybe because the climate controls in your SUV use Fahrenheit).
Fahrenheit was not "designed with the livability of humans in mind". It was designed partially around the physical state of salty water, which freezes at 0 Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit set the upper end of his scale to what he thought was body temperature. He decided to use 96 since it has a lot of factors (2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 48) which is nice when you're putting tick marks on a thermometer. Except that body temperature is a really bad temperature standard because it varies from time to time and from person to person, and turns out to range from 98.6-99.0, nowhere near 96. Oops. Nowadays the Fahrenheit scale is defined by the freezing and boiling points of water, just like Celsius, except it doesn't make as much sense. To say this scale is "designed around your living conditions" is a real stretch- tissue damage occurs at temperatures outside the range of 39-115 F (or thereabouts). It's pretty obvious that your argument is centered around nothing but parochialism.
A temperature scale designed around your personal living conditions would use color codes, like America's Homeland Security system. (So when it's "blue" out, you know to wear a jacket.) Or it would at least set 0 as room temperature, so negative temps mean turn on the heater, and positive means turn on the A/C. At least that would make sense.
Funny, yes. Unrealistic, no. I remember seeing a demonstration by a competing team's fencing coach/master a long time ago. This guy was one of the best in the world in his prime, but well into his elder years spent most of his time just teaching and walking around with the assistance of a cane.
However, put a blade in this old guy's hand, and he was suddenly transformed from a decrepit-looking fragile elderly person into a graceful, dangerous foe. I saw him whip one of his own students who was at the time representing the US in the World University Games. After the bout, he picked up his cane and limped back to the sidelines.
"No, no, no. Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."
Another team took off for a "long lunch." It was cleared with me, and they left behind someone to mind the store. I did, however, set a "no spoiler" expectation.
I don't get to see it until tomorrow.
As a disclaimer: I liked the movie a lot (more than TPM and more than I thought I'd like it). I'd have watched it again in any case; watching it in digital was a sweet bonus.
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
This might be considered off-topic but here is my story:
My friends and I were in the line on May 15 at 7:00PM. At 11:00PM, they started the seating so we went in and set down in the end row.
A group of 4 loud drunk friends sat 3 rows down from us. One of them had a ball and before the previews started, he threw the ball towards the front seats. Somebody got hit in the head so they threw the ball back and hit a lady in the row in front of us straight in the face.
Her boyfriend stood up and told the 4 loud friends to stop throwing stuff. That ignited the drunkest person in that group. She started screaming how weird and bad everybody is for being there.
She wouldn't stop so Harkins employees threw the group of 4 friends out of the theater.
Bright lights turned on in the theater and everybody started yelling "Jerry, Jerry" while the 4 Trolls were being escorted out. I can't even describe what a great feeling that is.
If they don't appear on the Jerry Springer show, they skipped work for sure.
I put that down to him acutally being old (850+; in Empire he mentions to Luke that "when 900 years old you reach, look this good you will not, hmmm?") and quite fragile.
But, when he needs to, he can use the force to make the cane redundant, and allow him to bounce around just as fast as he can imagine, and overcome the limitations of his old and fragile body.
Most of the time he doesn't bother though, 'cos it requires a load of concentration and it's easier to just hobble around with a stick. Being wise, old and a generally serene kind of guy, he doesn't feel the need to rush everywhere at top speed, and is content with that.
K.
Why doesn't the gene pool have a life guard?
Same thing happened in our showing when Yoda did the Neo move, but when he got funky.... everyone was "Holy shit!", "hell yeah!", "oooohhhhhh!".
If after multiple movies refering to Yoda being a great Jedi master, and people are surprised by this (even after all the leaks), you just are not a fan. Anyone ever consider Yoda and his cane just to be an act? Or a convienence?
By far the best fighting scene, and I would never fuck with that green goblin... oh, wait wrong movie, that Jedi Master.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Muvico 20 in Cityplace here in West Palm Beach was Dolby Digital certified-not THX.
Still sounded fine to me, and picture quality was above-average for film movies.
You folks are talking about blowing a whole day's pay on a fucking movie? Either you're getting a mere $1.00 per hour or you are so stupid that you should be.
Really, sign up folks, hold up your hands. Let's see just how many fools there are out there. Sheesh, no wonder we've got problems.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO